New Haven, Conn. – (September 4, 2022) – A simple late afternoon women's soccer match turned into a full-blown marathon on Sunday, as the Fordham Rams and Yale Bulldogs saw multiple in-game delays pushing their match over three hours long from the initial kickoff. Despite a flurry of chances both before and after the delays, the Rams were unable to find an equalizer, falling to the Bulldogs by a 1-0 score.
The match was scoreless for the first 40 minutes, when Yale notched the lone goal of the contest. Chloe Laureano pushed a through ball to Ashley Kirschner in the box, where she slipped a shot past
Maria O'Sullivan for her first goal of the year.
Fordham peppered Yale the entire second half, totaling 11 shots toward the Bulldogs' goal.
Kristen Cocozza and
Ryann Lucas each had shots on goal in the 51
st and 77
th minute, respectively that Maya Bellomo was able to knock away.
Then came the delays in the 80
th minute. A 59-minute lightning delay put the game on pause and once the match resumed, the lights in the stadium turned off, which caused another 20-minute delay.
Once the lightning and lighting situations were finished, the Rams threw everything they had at the Bulldogs.
Caitlin Kennedy almost tied the game off a scrum in front of the net in the 82
nd minute as well as a shot from distance in the 85
th minute.
Olivia Redden also had two chances in the final five minutes, hitting the goal post with a long free kick and then putting a shot right on goal in the final seconds that Bellomo caught to end the game.
Fordham ended the match with a 16-5 shot edge, as well as 6-1 corner kick advantage.
The Rams will next be in action on Wednesday, September 7
th, as they head to Quinnipiac for a 2:30 PM match.
